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Press Gazette: Times banned NewsNow over paid-for links service

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"[A] News International spokesman has ... told Press Gazette: 'NewsNow has been using Times Online content as part of its paid-for, commercial as well as free services. They have continued to do so despite our direct requests for them to stop. As a result, we have taken the decision to disallow their indexing of our content.'"

Press release: News International blocks Newsnow from linking to all Times content

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"NewsNow.co.uk ... has been told by News International (NI) that it may no longer link to any content on Times Online. ... The blocking has been technically implemented via the robots.txt protocol, a convention for requesting search engines, web spiders and other web robots refrain from asking for pages from all or part of a website."

Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Archived content and RSS feeds: The NewsNow problem

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"As part of a series on Guardian.co.uk, the site published a piece yesterday from February 23 1972 headlined ‘IRA kills 7 in raid on Paras’ English base’. On the site we can see it’s from the archive and the date it was first published, but sites such as NewsNow.co.uk, which aggregate news headlines from RSS feeds, don’t make the distinction."